Tyler W Williams’s exploration of the early modern history of the written word in Hindi is a deviation from a homogenised ...

Meet Anshu, an author delving into diverse realms. With a background in the UPSC CSE exam, Anshu combines expertise in labour, gender issues, Mithila culture, cuisine, environmental concerns, public ...

The Duke India Initiative and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies jointly organized the talk this week, "Words and Silences A Discussion on Contemporary Women Poets in Hindi." Guest speaker Rekha Sethi, ...

A growing number of historians of Hindi literature believe that the Hindi literary tradition begins with the invention of the Sufi romance and its first known example, the Candāyan (1379 CE) of ...

For my teacher, the medium was the message. The words written in his little book were inextricable from the circumstances that led to their inscription. The physical form in which books are produced, ...

Combining close readings of literary and scholarly works with the study of hundreds of handwritten books from the precolonial era, If All the World Were Paper explores this question in the context of ...